Zhang Zhongjing ⁽²²⁾

To understand the Medical Sage Zhang Zhongjing, one must set him against his contemporaries. His exact birth and death years are unknown, but one thing is certain: he was a physician of the Jian'an era. Zhang was already practicing medicine at the start of the…

Xiao Xianxiong Tang (Minor Chest-Storing Decoction) comes from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage). The original text in the Shanghan Lun reads: "In the minor chest-storing disease, the disorder is right below the heart; it hurts when pressed, and the pulse is floating and…

This article is organized from the content of a lecture I gave my students yesterday. Because my own level is limited and my work is busy, I have always lectured directly without preparing; so the content inevitably has many inadequate points, and I hope experts…

Guizhi Tang is praised as the foremost of all TCM formulas because it is the first formula in the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) and also the most widely used in clinical practice. Professor Liu Duzhou believed that Guizhi Tang, externally, harmonizes the nutritive…

Fangji Huangqi Tang (Stephania and Astragalus Decoction) comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet). It treats "wind-dampness with a floating pulse, heaviness of the body, sweating and aversion to wind." The original formula is: Fangji (Stephaniae Radix) 1…

Minor Bupleurum Decoction (Xiao Chaihu Tang) and Major Bupleurum Decoction (Da Chaihu Tang) are two famous formulas from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) by the Eastern Han dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing. When some cancer patients develop cancer fever, Minor or Major Bupleurum Decoction…

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), also known as evidence medicine, is an attempt to uniformly apply scientific methods to gather evidence and thereby confirm the effectiveness of medical interventions. To this day, EBM seeks to evaluate the risks and benefits associated with various forms of medical care…

The Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) is one of the TCM classics; its full name is Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases), comprising the Shanghan Lun and the Jinkui Yaolue (Essentials of the Golden Cabinet). Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun raised…

A healthy body does not fall ill without external stimuli. Whether these stimuli are what TCM calls internal, external, or non-internal-non-external causes, or what Western medicine calls viruses, bacteria, and mutant cells, their action on the body is harmful; it is precisely because of these…

The idea of pattern differentiation and treatment was first contributed by Zhang Zhongjing, so calling him the Medical Sage is no exaggeration; TCM doctors through the dynasties are all his spiritual descendants. It is commonplace that pattern differentiation and treatment began with Zhang Zhongjing; in…